In this article, Frank Schaeffer (Francis’ son) dialogues with an incredibly troublesome piece of the current administration ideology (that the republican candidates would carry on). Specifically, this piece of Palin’s acceptance speech:
“Terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America … he’s [Obama] worried that someone won’t read them their rights.”
Fascism in the making, where “ideology and rabid nationalism [are] above the law”.
No thank you. Either we are a country exemplifying freedom or we aren’t. If things don’t change, we increasingly won’t be.

Cool new word site: Wordle.

At the National Pastor’s Convention, NPR hosted a [discussion on faith and politics][1] with Chuck Colson, Greg Boyd and Shane Claiborne. It makes for a great listen and is about an hour and a half long. (Some of the quotes in my Idolatry rant below even get included!)
[1]:http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/evangelical_politics/index.shtml

If you use a mac and are interested in some free mind-mapping software that looks really nice, check out MindNode.

I just wrote my first article for the Jesus Manifesto.  It comes from spending time in Hosea this weekend…